Re: [NGO] NETCONF Data types

Andy Bierman píše v St 05. 12. 2007 v 10:14 -0800:
> Sharon Chisholm wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > But just because they are used in programming, doesn't mean we need to
> > distinguish them in the XSD. I'm going to check with some of my apps
> > people to see whether they would find this distinction useful or if a
> > single integer which could be as large as 64 bit is fine at this later
> > point in time. But I was more specifically worried about counter versus
> > gauge versus integer versus unsigned integer versus. Historically these
> > turned into CLRs.
> >   
> 
> I totally disagree.
> I remember several times, NMS programmers at Cisco
> asking for int8, int16, uint8, uint16.  It is very useful
> to have these 'extra' types.

Moreover, if I remember correctly, they are already available via the
W3C XML Schema Type Library in both XSD and RELAX NG, though under
different names - unsignedByte, unsignedShort, unsignedInt and
unsignedLong, so I think there is nothing to argue about here.

> 
> I also think it has been very useful to distinguish between
> gauges, counters, and simple numbers in SMIv2.

I do have some reservations here and prefer keeping types without
semantics at the general level.

Lada

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